| Answer | Crossword Clue |
|---|---|
| CAIN | Perpetrator in Genesis |
| CAIN | Genesis perpetrator |
| DOER | Perpetrator, in copspeak |
| DOER | Perpetrator, in cop lingo |
| GESTAPO | Perpetrator of horrors in Europe. |
| DOER | Perpetrator of a crime, in police slang |
| bluebeard | A character in a tale by Charles Perrault, who killed several wives in turn for disobeying his order to avoid a locked room, which contained the bodies of his previous wives. Local tradition in Brittany identifies him with Gilles de Rais (c.1400รป40), a perpetrator of atrocities, although he had only one wife (who left him) |
